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jueves, 21 de mayo de 2015

The Summer Theatre Menu in New York City

Summertime theatre in New York City
is a bit drowsy, they say, and you have to shoulder the crowds amid the traffic
and muggy weather, still if you have saved up a pocket full of cash there are
some wonderful events. To start with, the musicals. What about the Tony Award
Nomination “The King and I” directed by Bartlett Sher at the Lincoln Center? Or
“Something Rotten,” a real blockbuster comedy, at the St. James Theatre?

Speaking of the Lincoln Center, you
might have the time of your life there at a festival featuring a full plate of
international oddities: Japan’s Ninagwa Company in an adaptation of Haruki
Murakami’s novel “Kafka on the Shore” July 23 to 26; the Druid Theatre Company’s
“DruidShakespeare: the History Plays” July 7 to 19. Mark O’Rowe’s marathon
retelling of “Richard II,” both parts of “Henry IV” and “Henry V” from an Irish
perspective. Then the globe trotting troupe Cheek by Jowl in a French language
version of Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu Roi.”

Some more off Broadway shows: “An
Act of God,” by David Javerbaum, Studio 54, at 254 W. 54th street; a
play set in the future: “Afghanistan, Zimbawe, America, Kuwait” by Daniel
Talbott, Gymn at Judson, 243 Thompson St.; “The Flick,” Annie Baker’s Pultizer
Prize winning play, at the Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street Theatre, 27
Barrow St.; “The Qualms, a new play by Bruce Norris at Playwights Horizons, 416
W 42nd St.

A bit out of town you’ve got the
Williamstown Theatre Festival with William Inge’s “Off the Main Road” with Kyra
Sedgwick June 30-July 19; Dominique Morisseau’s “Paradise Blue” with Blair
Underwood July 22-August 2; and Eugene O’Neill’s “A Moon for the Misbegotten,”
with Will Swenson and Audra McDonald August 5-23.

If you have time to snoop around
you certainly will find menus of your own making because the City is most fun
when you discover it piece by piece!